Bartholomew's Notes on ReligionReligion and current affairs since February 2004(Untitled)- June 24, 2008 Todd Bentley: Meet the Man Who Met Saint Paul The Florida Ledger reports on a neo-Pentecostal faith-healing revival known as the "Florida Outpouring": The Pentecostal revival, which began April 2 at Ignited Church in Lakeland, draws an average of 30,000 or more people each week, according to its leaders, with about 50 percent of those from outside the state. In fact, it has become an international phenomenon, and almost a third of the crowds come from outside the United States,...http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2008/06/24.html#a1114 (Untitled)- June 21, 2008 Paul Cameron Boasts of Link to Moscow State University Notorious American anti-gay "psychologist" Paul Cameron (whom I first discussed here) is currently in Russia; Interfax Religion reports: He urged Russians to back up such politicians as Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov who opposed gay parade in Moscow. Cameron also finds it joyful that representatives of the sociology faculty of the Moscow State University showed interest to his institute's research and plan to conduct similar...http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2008/06/21.html#a1113 (Untitled)- June 19, 2008 Threat of UK Libel Tourism Leads to Revision of Book Review British libel tourism is not just for Saudi billionaires and Ukrainian businessmen: an Israeli academic has now used the threat of the London High Court to have passages removed from a book review published in the USA. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: The College Art Association has averted a so-called libel tourism action threatened against it in Britain. The threat came from an Israeli professor of..http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2008/06/20.html#a1112 (Untitled)- June 19, 2008 Zion Oil & Gas Backs John Hagee From a press release: Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. (Amex: ZN) of Dallas, TX and Caesarea, Israel announced today that it will sponsor the "Night to Honor Israel" banquet at the Third Annual Washington-Israel Summit of Christians United for Israel (CUFI)...It is expected that John Brown, Zion&146;s Founder and Chairman, will be interviewed by Pastor John Hagee during the Summit and that the interview will be broadcast on the Daystar Television...http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2008/06/19.html#a1111 (Untitled)- June 18, 2008 Russian Church Threatens Split with Constantinople From (inevitably) Interfax: The Constantinople Church's actions in church politics is one of the main challenges to Orthodox unity, the Moscow Patriarchate believes. According to Orthodox Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, the Patriarch of Constantinople is trying to set himself up as an "Eastern Pope", so obviously it would be better if Russia just took charge: "One of the main threats is Constantinople's...http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2008/06/18.html#a1110 (Untitled)- June 16, 2008 Rick Warren to Head 200,000 Missionaries I missed this from Time a couple of weeks ago: Already established as perhaps the most important voice in contemporary American Evangelical Christianity, Rick Warren last week pressed the button that he hopes will take his "brand" to the ends of the earth. Warren&146;s "brand" consists of the ideas in his "Purpose Driven Life" book, which was recently described by Jeff Sharlet as a "spiritual time-management manual". Linked to this is Warren&146;s.http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/rss.xml#a1109 (Untitled)- June 14, 2008 More on Hagee and Anti-Semitism An email from the "Jerusalem Connection" brings an uncompromising message from Rev. Jim Hutchens: Christian Zionists have a special mandate and "duty to expose and confront anti-Semitism wherever it is found." This is true of the overt anti-Semitism of evil Islamic Jihadists like Iran, who would "wipe Israel off the map," or Palestinian Jihadists who refuse Israel&146;s right to exist. It is equally true of the veiled anti-Semitism that lurks in...http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2008/06/14.html#a1108 |